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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Al·ien a.
 1. Not belonging to the same country, land, or government, or to the citizens or subjects thereof; foreign; as, alien subjects, enemies, property, shores.
 2. Wholly different in nature; foreign; adverse; inconsistent (with); incongruous; -- followed by from or sometimes by to; as, principles alien from our religion.
    An alien sound of melancholy.   --Wordsworth.
 Alien enemy Law, one who owes allegiance to a government at war with ours. --Abbott.